Collecting all 8 DOLLAR SPAGHETTI WESTERNS Novels: Beyond Sergio Leone  

''My Name Is Nobody'' was one of my top movies as a kid, and still is. Terence Hill, Terence Hill's stunts and humor, and that amazing music...

New graphics, OB! Very slick, I like them. You are forever evolving, a difficult task to sustain. Those four spaghetti westerns remain among the short list of my all-time favorite movies. Such an iconic cultural experience, never to be repeated. Your attention to the details behind the works, including Morricone's music (epic!) is stunning. I've learned a lot about some of those aspects viewing this episode of Outlaw Bookseller. A great subject to cover, one near and dear to my heart. Cheers!

Wow. Had no idea there were tie-ins to these beloved films. No matter how imitated, there's only one Leone. Just watching this video made all kinds of scenes flash up before me. The 70s were such a magical time for cinema. So much freedom & innovation. Vaya con Dios.

These are beautiful. I had no idea there were other stories told in this universe.

I did grow up watching Spaghetti Westerns with Bud Spencer and Terrace Hill, loved them and i still watch them today 🤠

I love this video about real treasures from my childhood

Love this genre (or rather sub genre), especially Morricone’s evocative scores.

Nice presentation...I like your collection of "Dollar" Westerns.

Classic! Manco is slang Italian meaning missing or maimed in the hand (other definitions too) I watched Sonny and Jed yesterday a classic spaghetti western which show the anti-hero, a despicable character, eating spaghetti... By Sergio Corbucci, who did Django which you show (with Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas) who made his name as well as Sergio Leone as action scene directors on a 'Peplum' sword and sandal epic. Great stuff. I was led to this movie by a Tarantino interview/review of the film which is also highly informative and enjoyable and finally along comes the great Outlaw Bookseller to complete the trilogy it has to be said. FYI One reason A Fistful of Dollars is based on the Japanese Kurosawa Samurai Yojimbo. Kurosawa sent a note: ''This is a great film, unfortunately it is my film'' The producers handed over 15% of the profits so he made more money from Fistful than all his previous Japanese films combined. Which is nice. Yojimbo was based on on The Glass Key (1947), an adaptation of the 1931 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) So layers and influences: Noir, Samurai and Western. Quite a mx. Fascinating stuff lovely books

Great video Stephen always great to watch. Your Spaghetti Western collection is superb 👍

Wonderful trip down Memory Lane. Our school library had a few of these paperbacks on its shelves, probably to cash in on those Monday night BBC film slots, in among the Dickens and the Bronte (the 'proper' school reading-list). I remember reading A Fistful of Dollars. It was the next-best thing to watching the film again ... long before VHS!

I loved the original Django, and the big gundown😮

that's an awesome collection! I'm definitely jealous! loved that Morricone-ish music in your video!

I’ve loved the soundtrack to these movies for a long time. It really is great music. I’m a few years younger than you, at 58 years old, but I still remember the impact of seeing these Italian westerns, and hearing that amazing music when I was a kid. It really blew my mind in a great way. I was hooked from the beginning. As much as I love the Italian interpretation of Western cinema, I am also a big fan of the original American version. Being a big fan of John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Gary Cooper, as well. And directors like Ford, Hawks, Peckinpah and Eastwood himself. I watched an interesting video elsewhere on RU-vid about how Sergio Leone played the soundtrack to one of his movies while the actors were making it to inspire them. Which seems like a great idea when you think about it. I had not been aware of that these great old movies were also books. So now you’ve got me curious about the books. And while I was looking for the books on Amazon, I also came across “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot“ by the same author. And that’s another great old Clint Eastwood Action flick.

Brilliant video that spoke to me a lot. The Dollar 'trilogy' was my big entry point into cinema as a child - the music, images and high drama burned their way into my brain in an almost overpowering way. I've seen the films loads of times since then and never once thought of the chronology - I always assumed they were just almost totally separate films because of Lee Van Cleef having two roles in them but I find it very amusing that there is a theory that the dollar stoies are set in an alternative history - Ward Moore springs to mind! Looking forward to your vids on the dollar novels - thanks as always.

Great stuff Steve, really enjoyed this one. I've a MTI to Good, Bad and the Ugly in Tandem and I think five of the eight. Will have to get searching for the rest now🙂

Now having watched the video.... Thank you so much, Steve. Fascinating stuff. I was too young to see the films in the cinema when they came out, but frustratingly was old enough to stay up late enough to see clips in the late night cinema review TV show (presented by Michael Scott?). The first film I saw was FaFDM, in the early 70s in a university refectory on a not great screen and somewhat distorted sound; I was blown away, by the film and the music. When I first heard the film soundtracks on LP & CD, they always sounded a bit too clean, after the full-on experience of hearing the music in the cinema. As I type this, I'm listening to 'A Fistful of Sounds', a 2-CD compilation of the soundtracks of AFoD, FAFDM, and OUaTitW which sadly omits TGTBTU, probably because it dates from the time before it was routine to put >74 mins on a CD. For people who love the Morricone music, & are willing to step outside of the dollar western canon, I would recommend watching a video here on YT from The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, 5 brilliant Australian musicians who appeared at the Albert Hall in the 2011 BBC Proms, playing Morricone music from the Leone films - 73 minutes of joy and amazement! There's a 2008 Korean film called 'The Good, the Bad, and the Weird', set in the 1930s or 40s Manchurian desert, which has been well-received in the West. Jonathan Ross: "Highly enjoyable...full of fun and invention"; The Times: "It's a blast - literally". MTV: "Everything that the latest Indiana Jones flick should have been". I have a DVD but haven't watched it yet.

I love these Morricone soundtracks & Once Upon a time in the West film! Van Cleef was best bad character ever!

I love Westerns and prefer the Spaghetti variety as well (just watched Django last week). I also go through phases where I read a lot of Western novels but it is easy to get burned out on them since it's hard to find a truly original plot once you read a few. I own the novels for the three Dollars films but have not yet read them. Eventually I will do so and track down the other books too.

Thanks for an enjoyable amble down memory lane. Read all of them as a teenager. Apart from an incongruous note about the MWNN having some idea of investing all his bounty money in a ranch someplace, I thought they were great. And those Chris Achilleos covers are simply sublime. Speaking of names, the books invent a whole roster of new sobriquets for the MWNN. The one I remember with particular relish is Mr Sudden Death. Millard was an active figure in the Western tie-in genre. He also did the novelisation of The Hunting Party, an undeservedly unremembered Oliver Reed western, would anyone believe.

What an odd coincidence as I’ve recently collected the Man With No Name trilogy on Bluray and was puzzling over the proper viewing order. I didn’t know about the books and will definitely look out for them. I also found a re-issued CD soundtrack for GBU and would like to find the rest to supplement an old cassette tape tape I have of Morricone’s music called “Take Off”! Cheers!

Classic stuff absolutely loved this one Steve my experiences mirror yours yet again regarding these books and movies . A huge fan of the spaghetti western much appreciated and executed in true outlaw style👍🏻

Well, well, well.... you do surprise me:) I too have those 8 Dollar western paperbacks. (Commenting before watching the video) All Tandem mmpb, bought new in 1972-74. 6 of the 8 are in the livery with the dollar bill at the top of the cover, the other 2 having a monochrome picture and a 'nth printing' star. All in excellent condition, but sadly I was young & dumb then, and put sellotape on the spines of 6 of them :(

One more sonic & visual treat: The Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Choir playing The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly theme plus The Ecstasy of Gold, live in 2018: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-enuOArEfqGo.html&ab_channel=DRKoncerthuset For a Few Dollars More: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DT1NJwEi6nw.html&ab_channel=DRKoncerthuset

Great video. THIS was the one with new angles, backgrounds and effects! I shouldn't try to catch up on too many in a row or I'll make no sense at all. I look forward to individual reviews of these in June (Just wait a week or so to post them - Take the bonus publicity. M. K. V won't begrudge you any bump in viewing, I'm sure. He's too Cool.) I knew spin offs existed from the time when there were book extensions of SO Many properties. . . Just before VCR's but at the beginning of the Media Marketing Landscape changing. I wish I could remember them all - Star Trek Books and Buck Rodgers books, and . . . Planet of the Apes books? There were other TV & movie continuations, but I purged all of that, somewhere over the years.

'pronunciare una sentenza di morte contro to sentence to death Could have something to do with the character passing judgment or sentencing someone to death... who knows

Overall fabulous video. I'm gaining more respect for the classic Western novel/story. (I'm. Leaving out JT Edson and L'Amour)Pls forgive me.